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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The First Civilizations of North America

An American Story: The Power of a Hidden Past

A Continent of Cultures

A Cultures of Ancient Mexico

Daily Lives: Play Ball

Cultures of the Southwest

Cultures of the Eastern Woodlands

Cultures of the Great Plains

Cultures of the Great Basin

Cultures of the Pacific Northwest

Cultures of the Subarctic and Arctic

Innovations and Limitations

America's Agricultural Gifts

Landscapers

The Shape of a Problem

Historian's Toolbox: An Ancient Calendar

Animals and Illness

Crisis and Transformation

Enduring Cultures

North America on the Eve of Contact

Dueling Documents: How Many People Lived in Hispaniola in 1492?

REVIEW CHART: A CONTINENT OF CULTURES

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: Tracking the First Americans

Chapter 2. Old Worlds, New Worlds, 1400-1600

An American Story: Fishing Nets and Far Horizons

Eurasia and Africa in the Fifteenth Century

Europe's Place in the World

Historian's Toolbox: A Witch Bottle

Africa and the Portuguese Wave

Sugar and the Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Spain in the Americas

The Spanish Beachhead in the Caribbean

Daily Lives: "Barbaric Dress"--Indian and European

Conquest of the Aztecs

Dueling Documents: How Did Spaniards and Aztecs Remember First Contact?

The Columbian Exchange

The Crown Steps In

The Search for North America's Indian Empires

Religious Reform Divides Europe

The Teachings of Martin Luther

The Contribution of John Calvin

French Huguenots and the Birth of Spanish Florida

The English Reformation

England's Entry into America

The Ambitions of Gilbert, Raleigh, and Wingina

A Second Roanoke--and Croatoan

REVIEW CHART: EUROPEAN EXPLORATIONS

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 3. Colonization and Conflict in the South, 1600-1750

An American Story: Outlandish Strangers

Spain's North American Colonies

The Founding of a "New" Mexico

The Growth of Spanish Florida

Pope and the Pueblo Revolt

Dueling Documents: What Caused the Pueblo Revolt?

English Society on the Chesapeake

The Virginia Company

Reform and a Boom in Tobacco

The Founding of Maryland and the Renewal of Indian Wars

Changes in English Policy in the Chesapeake

Chesapeake Society in Crisis

Bacon's Rebellion and Coode's Rebellion

From Servitude to Slavery

Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade

Historian's Toolbox: Hip Mask from Benin

A Changing Chesapeake Society

From the Caribbean to the Carolinas

Paradise Lost

Daily Lives: A Taste for Sugar

The Founding of the Carolinas

Carolina, Florida, and the Southeastern Slave Wars

White, Red, and Black: The Search for Order

The Founding of Georgia

REVIEW CHART: SOUTHERN COLONIES

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 4. Colonization and Conflict in the North, 1600-1700

An American Story: Bears on Floating Islands

France in North America

The Origins of New France

New Netherlands, the Iroquois, and the Beaver Wars

The Lure of the Mississippi

Historian's Toolbox: A French Map

The Founding of New England

The Puritan Movement

The Pilgrim Settlement of Plymouth Colony

The Puritan Settlement at Massachusetts Bay

Stability and Order in Early New England

Communities in Conflict

Goodwives and Witches

Daily Lives: A World of Wonders and Witchcraft

Dueling Documents: Accusations and Defenses in the Salem Witchcraft Trials